The DEA carried out no investigation into two American-registered planes busted in Mexico’s Yucatan carrying more than ten tons of cocaine. The reason, a top DEA official in Miami told us, was that the planes belonged to a “rogue” U.S. Customs operation, and any investigation would rightly be the purview of the Office of the Inspector General of the Cabinet Department under which U.S. Customs operates, the Dept. of Homeland Security.

The name of the operation in question is Operation Blue Lightning.